Spent his first full season in the Indians rotation, and once again finished with a strong second-half performance, going 4-5 with a 2.99 ERA down the stretch (75.1IP, 48H, 26R/25ER, 8HR, 20BB, 94SO, .181 AVG)...Had a slow start out of the gates, going 4-4 with a 4.98 ERA (24ER/43.1IP) through his first 8 starts of the year...Finished the first half of the season 10-7 with a 4.07 ERA (49ER/108.1IP) and managed to finish the year with a 3.63 ERA...From July 30 thru the end of the year, Carrasco went 4-4 with a 2.48 ERA (18ER/65.1IP) and a .163 average against (37-for-227)...Since the start of 2014, the Venezuela native ranks among MLB pitchers in second half stats in the following categories: average against (5th, .190), OBP (5th, .239), ERA (8th, 2.34) strikeouts (11th, 180) and strikeouts-per 9.0IP ratio (8th, 10.52)...Finished the season with 216 strikeouts (T9th in MLB, T5th in A.L.), surpassing 200 strikeouts in a single season for the first time in his career...Joined Corey Kluber (245 K's) to become the first Indians teammates to reach the 200-K mark in a single season since Sam McDowell and Luis Tiant pulled the trick in 1967 and 1968...Finished the season recording 5+ K's in 18 straight contests, the longest such streak by an Indians pitcher in a single season since Bob Feller did so in 23 straight contest in 1946...Feller's streak was part of a longer 28 game streak from Sept. 9, 1945-July 20, 1946...Was placed on the 15-day disabled list from Aug. 26-Sept. 8 (retroactive to Aug. 22) with right shoulder inflammation...Marked his first stint on the disabled list since 2012 when he was rehabbing from 2011 right elbow surgery...Went 2-3 with a 4.21 ERA (12ER./25.2IP) in his 5 starts after coming off the DL...In his penultimate start of the season, Carrasco earned his team-leading 14th win of the year with a one-hit, complete-game shutout at Kansas City on Sept. 25...Carried a no-hitter into the 7th inning and finished with a career high 15 strikeouts in his 6th career complete game (9.0IP, 1H, 0R, 2BB, 15SO, 113 pitches/78 strikes)...According to Elias, Carrasco became the first pitcher in Cleveland history to toss a one-hit shutout with 15+ K's...Also became just the third pitcher in franchise history to record 15+ K's in a CG shutout, joining Sonny Siebert (15 K's) in 1965 and Luis Tiant (19 K's, 10.0IP) in 1968...Both Siebert and Tiant accomplished the feat at home...Came a strike away of his first career no-hitter on July 1 at Tampa Bay...The right-hander struck out a then career-high 13 batters in the 8-1 victory, losing a perfect game bid in the 7th inning and the no-hitter on an 0-2 pitch to Joey Butler who lined a single into right field with 2 outs in the 9th inning (8.2IP, 1H, 1R/ER, 2BB, 13SO, 124 pitches/83 strikes)...Marked the ninth no-hit bid to get broken up with 2 outs in the 9th inning since 2002 and the third to get erased on a two-strike base hit (Elias)...According to SABR's Stew Thornley, it marked the first Cleveland no-hit bid to get broken up with 2 outs in the 9th since July 4, 1954 (Early Wynn)...Carrasco logged 9.0 innings in consecutive outings from July 30-Aug. 4, working a CG in a July 30 win at Oakland (2H, 1R/ER, 1BB, 7SO), and registering 9.0 scoreless innings in a 12-inning victory at Los Angeles-AL on Aug. 4 (1H, 0R, 1BB, 7SO)...Became the first A.L. starter to toss at least 9.0 innings while allowing 2-or-fewer hits in consecutive starts since Oakland's Bobby Witt on June 23 & 28, 1994 - the first pitcher to pull the trick for Cleveland since Sam McDowell on May 29 & June 2, 1970...His July 30 outing was his second complete game of the season and was the third of three consecutive complete games tossed by Indians starters, as Trevor Bauer and Corey Kluber did so against Kansas City on July 28 and 29...Marked the first time Cleveland has tossed 3 straight CG's since 1994 when Mark Clark, Jack Morris and Charles Nagy accomplished the feat on June 30 vs. Baltimore and July 1 & 2 vs. Minnesota...The 28-year-old worked 26.0 combined innings in three starts from July 30-Aug. 11, yielding just 3 runs (earned) on 7 consecutive hits (3R/ER, 2HR, 2BB, 22SO)...Tossed 8.0+ innings in each of those games, becoming the fifth Indians pitcher and first since Cliff Lee in 2008 to log 8.0-or-more innings while allowing 4-or-fewer hits in three consecutive starts...During that stretch, Carrasco had a 22.0 scoreless inning streak, which was snapped on Aug. 11 against New York-AL when Stephen Drew connected for a solo home run in the top of the 6th inning...Was the longest scoreless streak by any Indians pitcher this season, and the longest for an Indians hurler since Roberto Hernandez also tossed 22.0 scoreless innings from Sept. 3-16, 2010.

2014

Split the season between the rotation and bullpen and was the most dominant pitcher in the American League over the last two months of the season (see box at right)...Was in the starting rotation out of spring training, April 5-25 (0-3, 6.95 E RA, 17E R/ 22.0IP ), and ended the season there with 10 dominant starts from August 10-Sept. 27, going 5-3 with a 1.30 ERA to end the season (69.0IP , 45H, 10E R, 1BB, 78K ) to form a powerful 1-2 p unch alongside Corey Kluber...His 1.30 ERA from Aug 10-end of season was the lowest in MLB over that span (min 9GS)...Became the first Indians pitcher since 1991 (Rod Nichols) to post a save and a shutout within the same season.

Following April rotation stint he went 3-1 with a save out of the bullpen, posting an ERA of 2.30 (43.0IP , 34H, 11E R, 9BB, 39K , .217 AVG ) from April 30-August 5...Worked 12.2 scoreless innings in relief from June 22-July 25 and earned his first professional save on June 16 vs. the LA Angels, preserving a 4-3 win by recording the final 7 outs of the game (2.1IP , 1H, 0R, 1BB, 4K )...Worked 4.0 IP of relief two times to set 2014 club highs for single-game relief, the last coming on August 5 vs. Cincinnati that prepped his return to the rotation..O ver his last 16 relief outings (June 10-Aug. 5) his ERA was 1.23 (26.0IP , 21H, 6E R) as batters hit .180 (11/ 61) w/ men on (18th in A.L at time in relief) and .161 (5/ 31) with RISP (19th-lowest relief mark in league).

Made his fifth start of the year, his first since April 25, on August 10 at New York-AL (5.1IP, 2H, 0R, 0BB, 4., 77 P), marking his first win as a starter since June 29, 2011 at Arizona and snapping a 12-game losing streak as a starter covering 17 starts...Was 4-0 with a 0.70 ERA over his first 6 starts from August 10-Sept. 7 (38.2IP, 25H, 3R.ER, 4BB, 42., .179 A9G) to lower his season ERA from 3.88-2.69...Recorded scoreless starts on August 10 and August 16 vs. Baltimore (7.0IP ) and did not allow a run over 16.0 straight IP from August 10-22...Dating back to 1900, Carrasco became just the 3rd p itcher in Major League Baseball to post back-to-back shutout victories immediately following a streak of 15 or more starts without a win, joining Ryan Dempster and Bud Norris (both in 2012), and both after streaks of 18 winless starts (Elias).

Carrasco recorded his first career complete-game shutout (3rd career CG, first w.9.0 IP) in his start of September 17 at Houston, holding the Astros to a pair of infield singles and one walk, while registering a single-game career-high 12 strikeouts on 98 pitches...Joined Sandy Koufax as just the second pitcher ever to record a shutout on 98-or-fewer pitches while also tallying 12+ Ks, who did it (9.0 IP , 1 BB, 12 SO , 97 p itches) in a 3-0 no-hitter on June 4, 1964 at Philadelphia... Marked just the third time in Cleveland franchise history for an Indians hurler to allow 2-or-fewer hits and record 12+ strikeouts in a road shutout, as Carrasco joined Bob Feller (July 12, 1940 at Philadelphia-AL) and Bartolo Colon (Sep t. 18, 2000 at New York-AL)...Paired with Kluber's (2BB/ 14K ) effort the previous night, Carrasco's outing cemented just the 4th instance in MLB history for an A.L. team to get consecutive starts of at least 12 Ks and 2-or-fewer walks - the 2nd in Cleveland franchise history (Elias).

Over his last 3 starts beginning with the Sept. 17 shutout he was 1-2 w/ a 1.13 ERA (24.0IP , 13H, 3E R, 31K ) and in 6 September starts he was 2-3 w/ a 1.62 ERA (44.1 IP , 34 H, 8 ER, 8 BB, 54 K )...Indians were shutout, 2-0, over each of his last 2 starts and scored 8 runs in the 6 Sept. starts...MLB hitters had a slash line of .256/ .287/ .543 off him, as lefties hit .196 (45-230, 14th-lowest mark in A.L.) w/ a .516 O P S (.221 mark vs. RHH was 8th-lowest in A.L.)...Overall on the year batters hit .213 (39-183, 10th-lowest in A.L.) with runners on base and .221 (23-104) with RISP.

2013

Spent five stints with Cleveland and had a tale of two seasons depending on which role he was pitching in...Began the year as the club's 5th starter and opened the year by serving a 6-game suspension dating back to 2011 before making his first big league start since August 2011 on April 9 vs. the NY Yankees (L, 3.2IP, 7H, 7R/ER, 2HR)...Was ejected from that start in the 4th inning after hitting Kevin Youkilis after a Robinson Cano HR and later suspended by MLB for another 7-games...Before serving suspension was optioned to AAA Columbus the following day. Spent most of April, May and July with AAA Columbus, going 3-1-1 with a 3.14ERA in 16 games/14 starts in four stints for Triple-A Columbus...Compiled 79 strikeouts and averaged 9.9 strikeouts per 9.0 innings for the Clippers and limited Triple-A batters to a .221 average against....Did not allow a run over his first 3 appearances and first 2 starts for the Clippers from April 15-25 (14.2 IP, 7 H, 0 R-ER, 2 BB, 16 SO, 1 HBP) and finished the month of April with a 2.04 ERA (4 ER/ 17.2 IP)…During the month of May, Carrasco went 2-0 and ranked among the International League leaders in ERA (1.73, 1st), WHIP (1.12, 5th), average against (.216, 6th) and strikeouts (29, T7th)...Also went 1-0 w/a 1.42 ERA in 5 July games (19.0IP, 11H, 3ER, 5BB, 26K). ?ecalled a second time on June 8 to make an emergency spot start in place of an injured Zach McAllister (finger) that day in Detroit (L#2, 4.0IP, 10H, 6R/ER) before dropping his appeal and serving 7-game suspension, June 9-16...Optioned to Columbus on June 24, started game 2 of a DH at Chicago-AL as the 26th man on June 28 (ND, 5.2IP, 10H, 6R/ER) and was recalled again on July 6 to start against Detroit (L#4, 3.1IP, 10H, 7R/6ER) and optioned out the next day as he just couldn't nail down that spot in the rotation. ?eason turned around with August 9th recall from AAA and assigned to a bullpen role after several short starts from Indians starters depleted the relief ranks...That night vs. the LA Angels he tossed 5.0 shutout innings of 1 hit relief work (3BB, 4K, 57P), his first career relief appearance and the first Indians reliever since Jeremy Sowers on May 25, 2009 to log 5.0 shutout innings of relief...In relief in 2013 he went 1-0 w/a 1.32ERA in 8 outings (13.2IP, 7H, 2R/ER, 5BB, 11K, .156AVG, 7-45)… First 5 relief outings (11.2IP) were scoreless...As a starter he was 0-4 w/a 9.00ERA in 7 starts (33.0IP, 57H, 33ER, 13BB, 19K, .383AVG)...His win in relief at the LA Angels on August 20 (2.0IP, 1H, 0R) was his first win since June 29, 2011 at Arizona and snapped a personal career-worst 9-game losing streak...Still owns the 9-game losing streak as a starter dating back to July 5, 2011...After his September call-up (was optioned Aug 31-Sept 2 after Kubel trade) he appeared in 4 games (5.40ERA, 3.1IP, 4H, 2R/ER)

2012Spent the entire season rehabbing from right elbow reconstruction in September of 2012, mainly rehabbing at the
Player Development Complex in Goodyear, AZ...Did throw a simulated game in Akron on September 3 and started
the first game of the Double-A playoffs for Akron on September 5...Went on to make 3 starts in the Eastern League
playoffs (4.0IP, 3H, 3R/ER, 4K)...Also started games in the Arizona Parallel League starting at the end of September.2011Showed signs of being a consistent Major League starter before an elbow injury ended his season in early August...Was on the DL from April 25-May 10 with right elbow inflammation, making a rehab start at AA Akron on May 6 (3.2IP, 4H, 4R)...Won three straight starts from May 17-28 going 3-0 w/a 4.15 ERA over the span (17.1IP, 18H, 8ER)... Tossed a career-high 8.1 shutout innings on June 7 vs. the Minnesota Twins, a 1-0 Indians win in Progressive Field...Career-high 8.1IP, 3H, 0R, BB, 6K...Went 7.0IP shutout IP on June 13 at NYY (7.0IP, 5H, 0R, 3BB, 7K)...Earned his 8th win June 29 at Arizona (7.0IP, 4H, 2ER)... Did not allow a run over 21.1IP from June 7-18, season-long by an Indians pitcher this year and career-high... Went 4-2 w/a 1.90 ERA (42.2IP, 30H, 9ER, 7BB, 28K) in 6 starts in June...Tossed first career complete game on June 24 at SF (8.0IP, 6H, 4R/1ER) in a losing effort...Won 6 of 7 starts from May 17-June 18 and from May 17 to June 29 was 7-2 w/a 2.55 ERA over 9 starts (60.0IP, 48H, 17ER)...Lost all 5 starts in July (9.13 ERA, 23.2IP, 35H, 24ER, .340avg) to raise his ERA from 3.54 to 4.67... Was winless over his last 6 starts of the season from July 5-August 3 (30.2IP, 44H, 27ER, 7.92ERA)...Ejected from start on July 29 vs. KC after throwing pitch at the head area of Kansas City's Billy Butler (3.1IP, 7H, 7R/ER, 3HR) after yielding a grand slam to Melky Cabrera...Suspended by MLB for 6 games on August 1, a suspension he must still serve...Placed on the 15-day DL for the second time in 2011 on August 4 after final start at Boston on August 3 (7.0IP, 9H, 3R)...Missed the remainder of the season and underwent reconstructive right elbow surgery in New York City (Dr. David Altchek) on September 21 and will miss all if not most of the 2012 season....vs.RH:.216(49-227)5HR...Was 3-7 w/a 6.87 ERA in 10 home starts and 5-2 w/a 2.84 ERA in 11 road starts.2010Had a very productive year between AAA Columbus and Cleveland, making 7 Major League starts in September/October, going at least 6.0IP in all 7 starts with 6 quality starts in a row in September...Started the season at Columbus and went 2-2 with a 3.86ERA in his first 8 starts (46.7IP, 45H, 20ER, 20BB, 34K)...In his following seven starts from
May 28-June 30 he went 6-1 with a 4.60ERA (45.0IP, 47H, 23ER, 14K, 45K) and improved to 8-3 on the year...Picked up his third straight win on June 9 vs. Rochester by hurling a season-high 8.0 shutout innings and a seasonhigh
9 strikeouts...8.0IP, 3H, BB, 9K...On August 17 vs. Scranton/WB, Carrasco became the first 10-game winner for
Columbus since Pete Munro in 2005...Was removed from the game on July 20th at Durham after 3.1 innings with right
elbow discomfort...2H, 0R, 0BB, 5K...Didn't miss a start making his next one on July 25 vs. Pawtucket...ND, 4.0IP,
3H, 2R, 4BB, 3K...Over his last 8 starts at Triple-A, he was 2-2 with a 2.08ERA (47.2IP, 32H, 13R/11ER, 8BB, 44K).
...Went 10-6 with a 3.65ERA in 25 starts this year with Columbus (150.1IP, 139H, 69R/61ER, 46BB, 133K, .250avg)...
At the time of his September 1st promotion to Cleveland he was 4th in the IL in strikeouts, T5th w/a 1.23WHIP, 6th
in innings pitched, T7th in wins and 9th in ERA...Triple-A hitters batted .250 (139-556) off him this year with 16HR...
LH hitters batted .233 (60-258) of him while RH hit .265 (79-298)...Batters hit .226 (49-217) with runners on and .270
(38-141) w/RISP.
...Recalled by the Indians on September 1 when rosters expanded and made his 2010 debut that day vs. the Chicago
White Sox in Progressive Field, a 6-4 loss to the Sox...Did not receive a decision despite leaving with the Indians
leading 4-1...7.1IP, 6H, 3R/ER, BB, 4K...ND in his 2nd start at the LA Angels (ND, 6.0IP, 6H, 2R/ER, 2BB, 6 strikeouts)...
Worked 7.1 scoreless IP in start of Sept. 11 vs. MIN (ND).
...Picked up his first Major League win in his last start of Sept 17 in Kansas City, an 11-4 win over the Royals and Kyle
Davies...6.0IP, 8H, 3R/ER,1BB, 6K....Notched 2nd ML win on Sept 27 vs. DET (6.0IP, 11H, 3R/ER)...Overall in September
he went 2-1 w/a 3.26 ERA in 6GS (38.2IP, 42H, 14ER, 29K)...Was 12th in the AL in ERA among pitchers w/30.0IP, 7th
in IP and 11th in SO...Fanned a career-high 9 batters in his final start of the season at Chicago on October 2 in his first
complete game of his career in a rain-shortened 6.0IP game (6.0IP, 5H, 6R/5ER, 3BB, 9K).
...Worked at least 6.0IP in all 7 GS this year with CLE...0HR to LHH with CLE (.581OPS) and none with runners on
base (all 6 HR allowed solo HR)...Named the 7th best prospect in the Indians organization entering the season by
Baseball America....Batters hit .261 (18-69) with runners on and .235 (12-51) with RISP....Allowed 5 SB against 6CS...
LHH batted .193 (16-83).2009Newly acquired RHP spent the regular season at the Triple A level before making the first five (5) starts of his big league career in September...Entered the season as the #2 overall prospect in the Phillies organization according to Baseball America and 52nd overall minor league prospect by BA...Among International League pitchers he finished the season 1st in strikeouts (148), 2nd in innings pitched (157.0), T4th in the IL in wins (11) and T2nd w/26GS...Got off to a fine start at Lehigh Valley, posting an ERA of 2.37 thru his first 3 starts (19.0IP, 14H, 5ER) and fanned a season-high 10 batters on April 21 at Syracuse (7.0IP, 3H, 3R/ER, 1BB, 10K)...Lost 6 straight decisions from April 21-May 24, posting an ERA of 7.25 over the span (36.0IP, 46H, 29ER)
and went a season-low 2.2IP (8H, 6R) on April 26 vs. Pawtucket...Lost each of 4 straight starts from May 7-May 24 as he went a combined 0-4 w/a 6.23 ERA (26.0IP, 30H, 18ER)...Was 0-4 w/a 5.94 ERA (33.1IP, 41H, 26R/22ER, 12BB, 35K) in 6 May starts...Earned his 1st victory of the 2009 season on June 4 at Indianapolis (6.1IP, 3H, 2R/ER, 2BB, 5K) in his 11th start of the season...Won 4 of his 5 starts during the month of June as he went 4-1 w/a 4.06 ERA (31.0IP,
30H, 15R/14ER, 10BB, 26K) in 5 starts...Overall won 5 of 6 decisions from June 4-July 2 (3.65ERA, 37.0IP, 36H, 15ER)...On the year with Lehigh Valley was 6-9 w/a 5.18 ERA (114.2IP, 118H, 73R/66ER, 38BB, 112K) in 20 starts prior to the July 29th trade...Switched dugouts and made his 1st start with the Clippers on July 31 at Lehigh Valley as he earned the win in a 9-6 Columbus win... 5.1IP, 8H, 4R/ER, BB, 6K...Struck out 10 batters for the 2nd time this year, tossing a
season-high 8.0 innings on August 11 at Indianapolis as he won his 9th game (8.0IP, 4H, 1R/ER, 0BB, 10K)...Improved to 10-9 in his start of August 16 vs. Indianapolis (7.2IP, 5H, 2R/1ER...Won each of his first 4 starts with the Clippers from July 31 to August 16th as he was 4-0 w/a 3.45 ERA (28.2IP, 22H, 12R/11ER, 5BB,
27K)...With Columbus was 5-1 w/a 3.19 ERA (42.1IP, 31H, 18R/15ER, 7BB, 36K, .196 avg) in 6 starts with the Clippers...Tossed at least 5.0 innings in each of his 6 starts with the Clippers...Went at least 6.0 innings in 5
of the 6 starts and at least 7.0 innings in 4 of the 6...Combined Triple A batters batted .245 (149-608) off him this year with 17HR...LH hitters hit .229 (57-249, 5HR) and RH hitters batted .256 (92-359, 12HR)...Recalled by the Indians when rosters expanded on September 1...Lost his Major League debut on September 1 vs. the Detroit Tigers in Comerica Park, an 8-5 loss to the Tigers and Edwin Jackson...3.0IP, 9H, 6R/ER,
3BB, 3K, 3HR (Inge, Guillen, Polanco)...Did not get a decision in his 2nd start of Sept 8 vs. Texas, an 11-9 win over the Rangers and Neftali Feliz...5.0IP, 8H, 5R/ER, 3BB, 4K, HR to Murphy and Borbon...Lost his last three starts, Sept 13-Oct 1 (14.1IP, 23H, 11ER) and left his last start at Boston with a bruised left quad after being
hit by a Jacobs Ellsbury lined drive in the 4th inning...Picked off 3 runners in his 5 starts.2008Was a non-roster invitee to spring training...Split the season between Reading (AA) and Lehigh Valley (AAA), going a combined 9-9, 3.69 ERA in 26 games (25 starts)...Had 155 SO in 151.1 IP (9.2 SO/9.0 IP)...Pitched for the World Team at the All-Star Futures Game at Yankee Stadium...Named to the midseason Eastern League All-Star team...Began the season with Reading before being
promoted to Lehigh Valley on 8/2...Ranked 5th in the EL in strikeouts (109) at the time of
his promotion...Finished 2nd among all Phillies minor leaguers in SO
(155) and 5th in ERA (3.69)...Did not allow a run in 4 home starts for Lehigh Valley
(25.2 IP)...Pitched winter ball in Venezuela for Caracas.2007Combined to go 12-6, 3.86 ERA, 2 SHO in 26 games (25 starts) between Clearwater (A) and AA Reading...Began the season with Clearwater and was selected as a Florida State League midseason All-Star...Promoted to Reading on 6/20...Threw a rain-shortened 6.0-inning no-hitter, 8/21 vs Altoona...Named Phillies Minor League Pitcher of the Week 3 times: 5/28-6/3 (1-1, 1.42 ERA, 6 H, 6 BB, 9 SO), 6/11-17 (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 9.0 IP, 3 H, 7 SO) and 8/20-26 (2-0, 0.69 ERA, 13.0 IP, 6 H, 10 SO, 6 BB)...Pitched for the World Team at the All-Star Futures Game in San Francisco (1.0 IP,
H, BB, 2 SO)...Rated as the top prospect in Phillies minor league system by Baseball America following the season.2006Won the Paul Owens Award as the best pitcher in the Phillies minor league system...Spent the season with Lakewood (A) and tied for the South Atlantic League lead in CG (2), finished 3rd in the SAL in both ERA (2.26) and SO (159)...Won Phillies Minor League Pitcher of the Month for May (3-1, 2.18 ERA) and August (5-1, 1.82 ERA)...Reached
double digits in SO in 3 games, including a pro-high 11 SO, 8/8 at Asheville (7.1 IP, 2 H, 2 ER)...Took a perfect game
into the 8th inning, 8/8 at Asheville (L, 7.1 IP, 2 ER); in his next start, he teamed up with Andrew Barb to combine for
the 3rd no-hitter in BlueClaws history, 8/13 vs Lexington...Selected as both a midseason and postseason SAL All-Star
and pitched for the World Team at the Futures Game in Pittsburgh during the MLB All-Star break (0.1 IP, 2 H)...Named
the top prospect in Phillies minor league system by Baseball America following the season.2005Made starts at 3 levels: Lakewood, Batavia (A) and the Gulf Coast Phillies (R).2004Began his pro career with the Gulf Coast Phillies...Rated the 8th-best prospect in the Phillies minor league system by Baseball America